Changes in Occipito-Temporal Cortex with Literacy: Electrophysiological evidence

G Grossi, E Sacchi - Changing Brains, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
… when developing readers gain familiarity with the language in its … specifically, the aspects of
orthographic processing and the … In addition, sensitivity for English targets was similar for the …

[HTML][HTML] Early reading skills and the ventral occipito-temporal cortex organization

K Chyl, F Gentile, A Dębska, A Dynak, M Łuniewska… - Cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
… We explored the sensitivity, specificity, and stability of cortical activity in response to the
linguistic (words) and non-linguistic (faces) categories, as well as neural adaptation effects. …

The development of orthography and phonology coupling in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex and its relation to reading.

AM Dębska, J Wang, GK Dzięgiel-Fivet… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
… We showed that orthographically relevant lvOT areas … transparent mappings between
orthography and phonology in Polish… With reading acquisition, the lvOT becomes more sensitive to …

Beyond the Visual Word Form Area–a cognitive characterization of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex

A Dȩbska, M Wójcik, K Chyl… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
… research based on the so-called “familiarity effect.” It was first … Again, the authors demonstrated
that the higher the familiarity… In this view, the development of orthographic sensitivity in LS-…

Visual occipito-temporal sensitivity to digits through elementary school

G Fraga-González, SV Di Pietro, G Pleisch… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
… of the role of visual familiarity. A challenge here would be to examine N1 digit sensitivity by
using control stimuli that can be matched in terms of visual familiarity (eg, comparable level of …

The lexical categorization model: A computational model of left ventral occipito-temporal cortex activation in visual word recognition

B Gagl, F Richlan, P Ludersdorfer… - PLOS Computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
… of determining whether an orthographic percept is a known … from similar orthographic-perceptual
familiarity of words and … in occipito-temporal regions posterior to the word-sensitive lvOT …

[HTML][HTML] The odd one out–Orthographic oddball processing in children with poor versus typical reading skills in a fast periodic visual stimulation EEG paradigm

CG Lutz, S Coraj, G Fraga-González, S Brem - cortex, 2024 - Elsevier
… examined the level of sensitivity and familiarity to word form … large parts of the occipito-temporal
and inferior parietal cortex… an emerging fine sensitivity for orthographically legal versus …

Typical and atypical development of visual expertise for print as indexed by the visual word N1 (N170w): a systematic review

KK Amora, A Tretow, C Verwimp, J Tijms… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
… The authors aimed to answer whether the type of orthographic script modulates the
lateralization of print specialization or whether it is entirely dependent on script familiarity of the …

Functional laterality of the anterior and posterior occipitotemporal cortex is affected by language experience and processing strategy, respectively

X Liu, Q Wu, K Ying, A Li, Y Sun, L Mei - Neuropsychologia, 2020 - Elsevier
… than the Chinese characters in the right posterior vOT region (see Fig. 3B). These results
suggested that the right vOT cortex is sensitive to task difficulty or stimulus familiarity. …

Hemispheric organization for visual object recognition: a theoretical account and empirical evidence

M Behrmann, DC Plaut - Perception, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
… language areas and, by virtue of the optimization of the left VOTC for orthographic processing…
It may be the case, for example, that the RH is more sensitive to all visual stimuli at this age, …